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City Government: Strategic Management and Fiscal Health

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Developments in Strategic and Public Management

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Considering innovations less than two decades ago (see Berry, 1994; Berry and Wechsler, 1995), strategic management has now become the new orthodoxy in public management (Poister et al., 2010). With the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), government agencies at the federal level in the United States have been regularly developing strategic plans, identifying targets and measuring performance since 1993 (Lee and Jimenez, 2011). Many state and local governments have also adopted strategic management practices — from planning to performance measurement — either through legislative imprimatur or executive fiat, with the goal of improving decision-making, resource allocation and public service performance (Melkers and Willoughby, 2005; Moynihan, 2008; Poister and Streib, 2005).

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  1. Birmingham City University, UK

    Paul Joyce

  2. University of Minnesota, USA

    John M. Bryson

  3. Rutgers University, USA

    Marc Holzer

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Jimenez, B.S. (2014). City Government: Strategic Management and Fiscal Health. In: Joyce, P., Bryson, J.M., Holzer, M. (eds) Developments in Strategic and Public Management. IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336972_12

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